Staff SW Engineer

Visas Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the worlds most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants 15k Financial Institutions and billions of everyday people.   While working with us youll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows business and data solutions cyber security and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for Versatile curious and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Visa Software Engineer you will be an integral part of a multifunctional development team inventing designing building and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.   

The Work itself: 

• Design code and systems that touch 40 of the world population while influencing Visas internal standards for scalability security and reusability 
• Collaborate multifunctionally to create design artifacts and develop bestinclass software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings 
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements valuable service technology and new business flows in diverse agile squads 
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including enduser merchants b2b and business to government solutions. 
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services Transaction Platforms RealTime Payments and Buy Now Pay Later Technology 
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities 

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
• Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features under minimal guidance.
• Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML C Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements. 
• Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across ecommerce products.
• Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries hacking beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g. Java C# C)
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular React Kubernetes Docker etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product Test Devops and Agile/Scrum teams

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didnt work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications
5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD OR 8 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
Hands on experience working as a Payment System SRE in managing cross platforms.
Excellent Python programming skills for automation requirement for repetitive devops tasks
Person will be responsible to perform SRE and Engineering activities Payment platforms
Understanding of Linux networking CPU memory and storage.
Knowledge on Java and Python is good to have.
Excellent interpersonal verbal and written communication skills.
712 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree
Crossteam teamwork build and maintain relationships with the customer teams the user community architects and engineering teams jointly work on key deliverables ensuring production scalability and stability
Effective Root cause analysis of major production incidents and developing learning documentation .
Plan and perform capacity expansion and upgrades in timely manner avoiding any scaling issues and bugs.
Automation of repetitive tasks to reduce manual effort and avoid Human errors.
Tune alerting and setup observability to proactively identify the issues and performance problems.
Work closely with L3 teams in reviewing new use cases cluster hardening techniques for building a robust and reliable platforms.
leverage Devops tools disciplines( Incident problem and change management) and standards in day to operations.
Core Skills (Some combination of:
3 years of experience with modern middleware technologies. These might include (Tomcat Apache Springboot SQS JBoss IBM MQ IBM DataPower Hazelcast Flink Connect Direct SSL)
Understanding of Linux/Unix systems networking cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) containerization (Kubernetes Docker) and infrastructureascode tools (Terraform Ansible).
Proficiency with monitoring tools (Prometheus Grafana Datadog etc. logging systems (ELK stack Splunk) and tracing tools (Jaeger Zipkin).
Proven track record of automating complex tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reliability using Python Go Java or similar.
Technical Areas Youll Grow In:
Cloud & System Architecture: Design scalable resilient systems across hybrid cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure)
AI/ML Operations: Support and optimize ML model deployment pipelines and monitoring systems
Observability & Performance: Master advanced monitoring tracing and performance optimization techniques
Automation & Intelligence: Build smart alerting systems and automated remediation workflows
Distributed Systems: Design and maintain globally distributed payment processing systems

Additional Information :

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 510 of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk communicate in person and by telephone frequently operate standard office equipment such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 124700.00 to 180650.00 USD per year which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on jobrelated factors which may include knowledge skills experience and location. In addition this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical Dental Vision 401 (k) FSA/HSA Life Insurance Paid Time Off and Wellness Program.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime